Senior Python Developer Job Trends

Senior Python Developer
UK

The median Senior Python Developer salary in the UK is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 November 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 560 669 671
Rank change year-on-year +109 +2 +235
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Python Developer 93 78 50
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.12% 0.094%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.12% 0.098%
Number of salaries quoted 58 59 45
10th Percentile - - £63,500
25th Percentile £64,000 £52,500 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £62,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +28.00% -21.88% -3.03%
75th Percentile £87,500 £86,875 £110,000
90th Percentile £92,250 £107,000 £156,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +11.11%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 45,308 64,292 50,905
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.13% 95.05% 95.50%
Number of salaries quoted 27,732 36,346 39,519
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,592
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,027 £42,796
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% -4.76% -

Senior Python Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior Python Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Senior Python Developer job vacancy trend in the UK

Senior Python Developer
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for Senior Python Developer job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Python Developer job vacancies in the UK

Senior Python Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Python Developer over the 6 months to 4 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Python Developer in the UK

Senior Python Developer
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Python Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 4 November 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +111 90 £80,000 +28.00% 53
London +74 73 £80,000 +29.03% 36
Work from Home +58 45 £68,500 -14.38% 40
UK excluding London +60 14 £75,000 -3.23% 36
North of England +12 9 £72,000 -10.00% 9
Yorkshire - 6 £73,500 - 4
North West +5 3 £60,000 -25.00% 5
Midlands - 2 £80,000 - 2
West Midlands - 2 £80,000 - 2
East of England +33 1 £75,000 - 2
South East +20 1 - - 15
Scotland - 1 £90,000 - 3

Senior Python Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 4 November 2025, Senior Python Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Senior Python Developer in the job title.

1 93 (100.00%) Python
2 41 (44.09%) Test Automation
3 37 (39.78%) AWS
4 36 (38.71%) CI/CD
5 33 (35.48%) Flask
6 28 (30.11%) Agile
6 28 (30.11%) Serverless
7 26 (27.96%) OOP
8 25 (26.88%) Azure
9 24 (25.81%) React
10 23 (24.73%) QA
11 22 (23.66%) AWS Lambda
11 22 (23.66%) C++
12 21 (22.58%) DynamoDB
12 21 (22.58%) Problem-Solving
13 20 (21.51%) Linux
14 19 (20.43%) Boost C++ Libraries
14 19 (20.43%) Data Science
14 19 (20.43%) Docker
14 19 (20.43%) Low Latency
14 19 (20.43%) OO
14 19 (20.43%) Order Management
15 18 (19.35%) Containerisation
15 18 (19.35%) Django
16 17 (18.28%) FastAPI
16 17 (18.28%) RESTful
16 17 (18.28%) TDD
17 16 (17.20%) Elasticsearch
17 16 (17.20%) Scrum
17 16 (17.20%) Visualisation

Senior Python Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (3.23%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 1 (1.08%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 37 (39.78%) AWS
2 28 (30.11%) Serverless
3 25 (26.88%) Azure
4 22 (23.66%) AWS Lambda
5 9 (9.68%) GitHub
6 8 (8.60%) GCP
7 3 (3.23%) Azure AI
8 2 (2.15%) Azure AKS
8 2 (2.15%) GitHub Copilot
9 1 (1.08%) Amazon EventBridge
9 1 (1.08%) Amazon Kinesis
9 1 (1.08%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 1 (1.08%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.08%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.08%) AWS Step Functions
9 1 (1.08%) Azure Cognitive Search
9 1 (1.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (1.08%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.08%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.15%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (22.58%) DynamoDB
2 16 (17.20%) Elasticsearch
3 13 (13.98%) NoSQL
4 7 (7.53%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (7.53%) RDBMS
4 7 (7.53%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.15%) Tick Data
6 1 (1.08%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (4.30%) Git
2 2 (2.15%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 35 (37.63%) Finance
2 22 (23.66%) Front Office
3 15 (16.13%) Health Technology
3 15 (16.13%) Publishing
3 15 (16.13%) Tech for Good
4 13 (13.98%) Public Sector
5 11 (11.83%) Banking
6 8 (8.60%) Manufacturing
6 8 (8.60%) Marketing
7 7 (7.53%) Electronics
7 7 (7.53%) Telecoms
8 6 (6.45%) Social Skills
9 5 (5.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (2.15%) Back Office
10 2 (2.15%) Games
11 1 (1.08%) Advertising
11 1 (1.08%) Agriculture
11 1 (1.08%) Analytical Skills
11 1 (1.08%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (35.48%) Flask
2 24 (25.81%) React
3 19 (20.43%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 18 (19.35%) Django
5 17 (18.28%) FastAPI
5 17 (18.28%) RESTful
6 15 (16.13%) Swagger
7 10 (10.75%) REST
8 9 (9.68%) PySpark
9 7 (7.53%) HTML
10 6 (6.45%) CSS
11 4 (4.30%) OAuth
11 4 (4.30%) OAuth2
11 4 (4.30%) OpenID
11 4 (4.30%) pytest
12 3 (3.23%) NumPy
12 3 (3.23%) Pandas
12 3 (3.23%) PyXLL
12 3 (3.23%) Seaborn
12 3 (3.23%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 24 (25.81%) Data Structures
2 21 (22.58%) Hedge funds
3 19 (20.43%) Algorithms
3 19 (20.43%) Equities
3 19 (20.43%) Management Information System
4 6 (6.45%) Cloud Native
5 4 (4.30%) PKI
6 3 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.08%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 20 (21.51%) Linux
2 1 (1.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (44.09%) Test Automation
2 36 (38.71%) CI/CD
3 28 (30.11%) Agile
4 26 (27.96%) OOP
5 21 (22.58%) Problem-Solving
6 19 (20.43%) Data Science
6 19 (20.43%) Low Latency
6 19 (20.43%) OO
6 19 (20.43%) Order Management
7 18 (19.35%) Containerisation
8 17 (18.28%) TDD
9 16 (17.20%) Scrum
9 16 (17.20%) Visualisation
10 15 (16.13%) Continuous Delivery
10 15 (16.13%) Data Analysis
10 15 (16.13%) Operational Stability
10 15 (16.13%) Pair Programming
10 15 (16.13%) Software Testing
11 14 (15.05%) User Experience
12 13 (13.98%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 93 (100.00%) Python
2 22 (23.66%) C++
3 15 (16.13%) SQL
3 15 (16.13%) TypeScript
4 6 (6.45%) C#
4 6 (6.45%) JavaScript
5 3 (3.23%) Bicep
5 3 (3.23%) Java
6 1 (1.08%) Bash
6 1 (1.08%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (2.15%) SC Cleared
1 2 (2.15%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (24.73%) QA
System Software
1 19 (20.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (16.13%) Terraform
2 13 (13.98%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (11.83%) Databricks
2 8 (8.60%) Google
3 7 (7.53%) SAP
4 5 (5.38%) Microsoft
5 2 (2.15%) Foundry
6 1 (1.08%) SimCorp